The risk of having a gun in the home

[Orrex]

46. You seem to be skewing some of the statistics there

680 annually is a fairly small number for a country on 310 million. There are lots of other accident causes that are killing lots more folks than guns. For example, 33,041 in 2010 were killed by accidental poisoning.

Does that 680 figure refer to accidental gun injuries or to accidental gun fatalities? What's your source? Citation, please.

In addition, you should distinguish between a total population of 310 million versus the much smaller population of gun owners, since that's a better baseline. 680 annual accidents might still seem like a small number compared to 33,041, but you also need to consider the number of households that contain at least one poisonous substance (approximately 100%) versus the number that contain at least one firearm (substantially less than 100%)

Justified homicide
Anti-gun fanatics usually leave that category out. There are few hundred of those annually. Sometime we do use guns to defend ourselves from violent criminals.

Yeah, and pro-gun fanatics tend to over-emphasize this category. A few hundred justifiable homicides annually? By private citizens? What's your source? Citation, please.

Regarding your thoughts on suicide, I suppose you're free to kill yourself if you really want to, but others may take a less cavalier attitude about it, especially if it pertains to loved ones. Yes, a person intent on suicide can find some other method if a gun is not available, but gun offer a much higher first-time success rate than other methods, so it's worth considering the difference in lethality between guns and any other implement of death.

Since Nov, 1998 there have been 169,203,375 NICS checks. That's about 170 million gun sales in the last 14 and 1/2 years. Yet gun violence is declining.

Violent crime overall is declining. What's your point?